From October 12 – 26, ‘The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett’ by Chelsea Sedoti will be available for every patron that wishes to read it—no holds, no wait lists – through Mid-Hudson Library System Digital Downloads. Posters, handouts, press release, social media graphics are available!
MHLS will be closed in observance of Labor Day on Monday, September 4th. There will be no MHLS Delivery Services or Tech Support Services.
Governor Cuomo has signed A.1094-A Galef / S.3023-A Ritchie into law! Affectionately known as the “tax check-off bill,” this law amends New York State Tax Law to permit income taxpayers to make contributions directly into the state “Love Your Library Fund” when completing their annual tax filings.
Monies from the “Love Your Library Fund” are used exclusively to support the annual New York Statewide Summer Reading Program.
Thank you to all who wrote and called the Governor to make this happen!
The latest installment of the MHLS Engage! Webinar Series is now available on demand! This installment features an interview with John Remington, a trustee of the Saugerties Public Library, and is focused on their library’s Little Free Libraries Initiative. Watch this mini-webinar at your convenience through the MHLS Engage! Web Site
The 2017 Mid-Hudson Library System Annual Membership Meeting will be held the morning of Friday, October 27th, at the Henry A. Wallace Visitor and Education Center, Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, Hyde Park. Our theme this year is Libraries: Essential to an Informed Citizenry. A special event, coordinated by MHLS: Women in Politics: Past, Present, & Future – A Recognition of the Centennial of Women’s Right to Vote in New York, will follow the annual meeting.
The American Library Association (ALA) has opened the application period for grants to develop public library programming that promotes computer science (CS) and computational thinking (CT) among youth. The grant opportunity is the latest phase of the Libraries Ready to Code (RtC) initiative, sponsored by Google. Libraries will be selected to receive grants of up to $25,000 to design and implement youth coding programs that incorporate Ready to Code concepts. Learn more at: http://www.ala.org/tools/readytocode
This year, the New York State Legislature has passed a bill (A.1094-A Galef / S.3023-A Ritchie) that would permit every taxpayer to directly and conveniently support the Summer Reading Program when preparing tax forms. This bill will soon be sent to Governor Andrew Cuomo, who will consider the fate of the program’s future funding.
Send Governor Cuomo a letter of support today through the New York Library Association’s Online Advocacy Center
The MHLS van has found a new purpose as the Olive Free Library’s bookmobile! Congratulations to the Olive Free Library for being the first library in the system to implement an official bookmobile. Chrissy Lawlor, director of the Olive Free Library is pictured above.
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Each of these libraries will receive $800 from MHLS thanks to funds from the New York State Library’s Family Literacy Library Services grant program. Funds will be used to purchase early literacy materials to support the provision of early literacy programs in their library as part of their participation in the 2016-2017 MHLS Early Literacy Cohort Project. In addition, these libraries each received over $500 of professional materials as well as training in all of the elements of the Ready to Read at New York Libraries: Early Childhood Public Library Staff Development Program.
MHLS Early Literacy efforts focus on training for member library staff in support of making their library a vital community partner and early learning hub in their community.
The end of the New York State legislative session brought good news for MHLS member libraries. The Senate passed a bill authorizing Special Legislative Grants (also known as Bullet Aid) to member libraries totaling $390,000! For a listing of each library’s grant amount check out this week’s MHLS Bulletin.
